Spontaneous emission enhancement of a single molecule by a double-sphere nanoantenna across an interface
Optics
2015-06-11 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report on two orders of magnitude reduction in the fluorescence lifetime when a single molecule placed in a thin film is surrounded by two gold nanospheres across the film interface. By attaching one of the gold particles to the end of a glass fiber tip, we could control the modification of the molecular fluorescence at will. We find a good agreement between our experimental data and the outcome of numerical calculations.
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@article{arxiv.1208.1113,
title = {Spontaneous emission enhancement of a single molecule by a double-sphere nanoantenna across an interface},
author = {K. -G. Lee and H. Eghlidi and X-W. Chen and A. Renn and S. Götzinger and V. Sandoghdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1113},
year = {2015}
}